Esther 9

1 And in the twelfth month — it [is] the month of Adar — on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them —

١ وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الثَّانِي عَشَرَ، (آذَارَ – مَارِسَ)، حِينَ آنَ أَوَانُ تَنْفِيذِ أَمْرِ الْمَلِكِ وَحُكْمِهِ، وَهُوَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانَ فِيهِ أَعْدَاءُ الْيَهُودِ يَرْجُونَ التَّسَلُّطَ عَلَيْهِمِ، انْقَلَبَ المَوْقِفُ ضِدَّهُمْ، فَتَسَلَّطَ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى أَعْدَائِهِمْ.

2 the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence, for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples.

٢ وَتَجَمَّعَ الْيَهُودُ فِي مُدُنِهِمْ فِي كُلِّ أَرْجَاءِ دِيَارِ الْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ لِيُدَافِعُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ ضِدَّ السَّاعِينَ لإِيذَائِهِمْ، فَلَمْ يَجْرُؤْ أَحَدٌ عَلَى مُجَابَهَتِهِمْ لأَنَّ الرُّعْبَ مِنْهُمْ هَيْمَنَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ،

3 And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them;

٣ وَقَامَ رُؤَسَاءُ الأَقَالِيمِ وَالْحُكَّامُ وَالْوُلاةُ وَوُكَلاءُ الْمَلِكِ بِمُسَاعَدَةِ الْيَهُودِ خَوْفاً مِنْ مُرْدَخَايَ،

4 for great [is] Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.

٤ لأَنَّهُ أَصْبَحَ يَتَمَتَّعُ بِنُفُوذٍ عَظِيمٍ فِي قَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ، وَذَاعَ صِيتُهُ فِي كُلِّ الأَقَالِيمِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ تَزَايَدَتْ شُهْرَتُهُ وَعَظَمَتُهُ.

5 And the Jews smite among all their enemies — a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction — and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,

٥ وَقَهَرَ الْيَهُودُ جَمِيعَ أَعْدَائِهِمْ وَقَتَلُوهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَأَهْلَكُوهُمْ، وَفَعَلُوا بِهِمْ مَا شَاءُوا،

6 and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men;

٦ فَأَبَادُوا فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ.

7 and Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

٧ كَمَا قَتَلُوا فَرْشَنْدَاثَا وَدَلْفُونَ وَأَسْفَاثَا،

8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

٨ وَفُورَاثَا وَأَدَلْيَا وَأَرِيدَاثَا،

9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

٩ وَفَرْمَشْتَا وَأَرِيسَايَ وَأَرِيدَايَ وَيِزَاثَا،

10 ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

١٠ وَهُمْ عَشَرَةُ أَبْنَاءٍ لِهَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَداثَا عَدُوِّ الْيَهُودِ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا إِطْلاقاً عَلَى النَّهْبِ.

11 On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan the palace before the king,

١١ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ رُفِعَ تَقْرِيرٌ بِعَدَدِ الْقَتْلَى فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ،

12 and the king saith to Esther the queen, 'In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what [is] thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.'

١٢ فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ لأَسْتِيرَ الْمَلِكَةِ: «إنْ كَانَ الْيَهُودُ قَدْ قَتَلُوا فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ وَحْدَهَا خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رِجُلٍ، فَضْلاً عَنْ أَبْنَاءِ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةِ، فَكَمْ قَتَلُوا فِي بَاقِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ؟ وَالآنَ مَا هُوَ سُؤْلُكِ فَأُلَبِّيَهُ، وَمَا هِيَ طِلْبَتُكِ فَأَقْضِيَهَا لَكِ؟»

13 And Esther saith, 'If to the king [it be] good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who [are] in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.'

١٣ فَأَجَابَتْ: «إِنْ طَابَ لِلْمَلِكِ فَلْيُؤْذَنْ لِلْيَهُودِ فِي شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ أَنْ يَفْعَلُوا غَداً مَا فَعَلُوهُ الْيَوْمَ وَيَصْلِبُوا أَبْنَاءَ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةَ عَلَى خَشَبَةٍ».

14 And the king saith — 'to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

١٤ فَأَمَرَ الْمَلِكُ بِتَنْفِيذِ الطَّلَبِ، وَأَصْدَرَ مَرْسُوماً بِذَلِكَ فِي شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ، وَصَلَبُوا أَبْنَاءَ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةَ.

15 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

١٥ ثُمَّ اجْتَمَعَ الْيَهُودُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ أَيْضاً مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ، وَقَتَلُوا ثَلاثَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا عَلَى النَّهْبِ.

16 And the rest of the Jews, who [are] in the provinces of the king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand;

١٦ كَمَا تَآزَرَ الْيَهُودُ الْبَاقُونَ الْمُنْتَشِرُونَ فِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ وَدَافَعُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَاسْتَرَاحُوا مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ، بَعْدَ أَنْ قَتَلُوا خَمْسَةً وَسَبْعِينَ أَلْفاً مِنْهُمْ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا عَلَى النَّهْبِ.

17 on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, even to rest on the fourteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.

١٧ حَدَثَ هَذَا فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ، وَاسْتَرَاحُوا فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، حَيْثُ احْتَفَلُوا فِيهِ شَارِبِينَ فَرِحِينَ.

18 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan have been assembled, on the thirteenth day of it, and on the fourteenth of it, even to rest on the fifteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.

١٨ أَمَّا يَهُودُ شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ فَقَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا لِلدِّفَاعِ عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ فِي الْيَوْمَيْنِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ وَالرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ اسْتَرَاحُوا فِي الْيَوْمِ الْخَامِسِ عَشَرَ، حَيْثُ احْتَفَلُوا فِيهِ شَارِبينَ فَرِحِينَ.

19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who are dwelling in cities of the villages, are making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar — joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

١٩ لِهَذَا يَحْتَفِلُ الْيَهُودُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي مُدُنِ الْمَنَاطِقِ الرِّيفِيَّةِ بِالْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْ آذَارَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، فَيُقِيمُونَ الْوَلائِمَ وَيَبْتَهِجُونَ وَيَتَبَادَلُونَ الْهَدَايَا.

20 And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who [are] in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

٢٠ وَدَوَّنَ مُرْدَخَايُ هَذِهِ الأَحْدَاثَ، وَبَعَثَ بِرَسَائِلَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْيَهُودِ الْقَرِيبِينَ مِنْهُ وَالْبَعِيدِينَ، الْمُنْتَشِرِينَ فِي كُلِّ أَنْحَاءِ مَمْلَكَةِ فَارِسَ،

21 to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,

٢١ يَحُثُّهُمْ عَلَى الاحْتِفَالِ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ فِي الْيَوْمَيْنِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ وَالْخَامِسَ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ.

22 as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.

٢٢ وَهُمَا الْيَوْمَانِ اللَّذَانِ اسْتَراحَ فِيهِمَا الْيَهُودُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ، وَهُوَ الشَّهْرُ الَّذِي تَحَوَّلَ عِنْدَهُمْ مِنْ شَهْرِ حُزْنٍ إِلَى شَهْرِ فَرَحٍ، وَمِنْ نُوَاحٍ إِلَى احْتِفَالٍ، فَيَجْعَلُونَهُمَا يَوْمَيْ شُرْبٍ وَفَرَحٍ وَتَبَادُلِ هَدَايَا وَإِحْسَانٍ إِلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ.

23 And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

٢٣ فَقَبِلَ الْيَهُودُ مَا عَرَضَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مُرْدَخَايُ، وَاسْتَمَرُّوا يَحْتَفِلُونَ بِذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ،

24 because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur — that [is] the lot — to crush them and to destroy them;

٢٤ تَذْكَاراً لِمُؤَامَرَةِ هَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَدَاثَا الأَجَاجِيِّ عَدُوِّ الْيَهُودِ، الَّذِي سَعَى لإِبَادَتِهِمْ، وَأَلْقَى الْقُرْعَةَ، أَيْ الْفُورَ لإِفْنَائِهِمْ وَإِهْلاكِهِمْ.

25 and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

٢٥ وَلَكِنْ حَالَمَا لَفَتَتْ أَسْتِيرُ انْتِبَاهَ الْمَلِكِ إِلَى الْمُؤَامَرَةِ أَصْدَرَ مَرْسُوماً ارْتَدَّ فِيهِ كَيْدُ هَامَانَ الَّذِي كَادَهُ لِلْيَهُودِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ، وَتَمَّ صَلْبُهُ مَعَ أَبْنَائِهِ عَلَى خَشَبَةٍ.

26 therefore they have called these days Purim — by the name of the lot — therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they have seen concerning this, and what hath come unto them,

٢٦ لِهَذَا دُعِيَ هَذَانِ الْيَوْمَانِ فُورِيمَ عَلَى اسْمِ «الْفُورِ» مِنْ أَجْلِ مَا وَرَدَ فِي هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَمِنْ جَرَّاءِ مَا شَاهَدُوهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَمَا أَحْدَقَ بِهِمْ مِنْ خَطَرٍ،

27 the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;

٢٧ وَوَافَقَ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى مُمَارَسَةِ هَذَا الاحْتِفَالِ فِي حَيَاتِهِمْ، وَإِحْيَائِهِ فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِمْ وَفِي جَمِيعِ الْمُلْتَصِقِينَ بِهِمْ، لِيَظَلَّ تَذْكَاراً لَا يَزُولُ، فَيُعَيِّدُوا هَذَيْنِ الْيَوْمَيْنِ وَفْقاً لِمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ وَفِي مَوْعِدِهُمَا الْمُحَدَّدِ مِنْ كُلِّ سَنَةٍ.

28 and these days are remembered and kept in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, and city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from their seed.

٢٨ وَهَكَذَا يَخْلُدُ هَذَانِ الْيَوْمَانِ وَيُحْتَفَلُ بِهِمَا مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ، فِي كُلِّ عَشِيرَةٍ وَفِي كُلِّ إِقْلِيمٍ وَمَدِينَةٍ عَلَى مَرِّ الأَيَّامِ، فَلا يَزُولُ ذِكْرُهُمَا مِنْ بَيْنِ الْيَهُودِ وَلا يَفْنَى مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِمْ.

29 And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, writeth, and Mordecai the Jew, with all might, to establish this second letter of Purim,

٢٩ ثُمَّ كَتَبَتِ الْمَلِكَةُ أَسْتِيرُ ابْنَةُ أَبِيحَائِلَ وَمُرْدَخَايُ الْيَهُودِيُّ بِكُلِّ سُلْطَانٍ رِسَالَةً ثَانِيَةً إِثْبَاتاً لِرِسَالَةِ الْفُورِيمِ،

30 and he sendeth letters unto all the Jews, unto the seven and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus — words of peace and truth —

٣٠ وَبَعَثَتِ الرَّسَائِلَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْيَهُودِ الْمُقِيمِينَ فِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ الْمِئَةِ وَالسَّبْعِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ، مُحَمَّلَةً بِالسَّلامِ وَالصِّدْقِ،

31 to establish these days of Purim, in their seasons, as Mordecai the Jew hath established on them, and Esther the queen, and as they had established on themselves, and on their seed — matters of the fastings, and of their cry.

٣١ وَفِيهَا حَضٌّ عَلَى الاحْتِفَالِ بِهَذَيْنِ الْيَوْمَيْنِ فِي مَوْعِدَيْهِمَا الْمُقَرَّرَيْنِ، كَمَا أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ مُرْدَخَايُ الْيَهُودِيُّ وَالْمَلِكَةُ أَسْتِيرُ، وَكَمَا تَعَهَّدُوا هُمْ وَأَلْزَمُوا نَسْلَهُمْ بِمَوَاعِيدِ الصَّوْمِ وَالنُّوَاحِ،

32 And a saying of Esther hath established these matters of Purim, and it is written in the Book.

٣٢ فَأَوْجَبَ أَمْرُ أَسْتِيرَ مُمَارَسَةَ هَذِهِ الْمَرَاسِيمِ، وَتَمَّ تَدْوِينُهَا فِي دَرْجٍ.